Join the fight or join the failures.

I am devastated by this loss. I live in Oklahoma. We lost the senate race, overwhelmingly voted to assign gay people second class status, and voted to re-elect George W. Bush. I am representative of millions of my fellow Americans who did not and will not support this fucked up administration.

I am not going to attack Kerry or hold it against him. America has spoken and this is their choice. My first response was fuck America! Fuck these hateful homophobic, racist, evangelical people. We deserve the government we get and now we will reap the whirlwind for what we have sown. I was ready to leave this country. A country I have served in uniform. A country I once loved and had great hopes for. I still love America but I am sorely disappointed in the majority of her people.

But slowly, a plan is forming in my mind. We can't sit back and let the hopelessness of this situation overwhelm us. We can't give up on our democracy. We will not be marginalized by a razor thin majority who thinks we are less than they; less moral, less patriotic, less valuable.

We are an integral part of this society and we can change it in the next four years.

Here is how:

Part one of this plan is to show this country our intrinsic value. We make up half of this country. We overwhelmingly make up the work force, the middle and lower classes. We are the grunts who make this country's economy function. We are the plumbers, mechanics, retail workers, nurses, teachers, union workers, state, city and federal employees. We are the backbone of this country and we can shut it down.

I have been told by conservatives that we are not Americans. We are not important and we should all leave this country if we don't like it. Some have said we should be forced out as we are traitorous and unpatriotic. You are with us or against us.

Well, let's see how fulfilling their wish would affect this country. I am calling for a nationwide sick out. Let's see how well America functions for one day without the hard work of democrats, moderates and liberals.

Friday is the day. Call in sick. Don't go to work. We are going to use Blue Flu to make a one day point. If we could get just 1/2 of one percent of the people who voted against Bush to take a sick day we could show America and conservatives how fucked they would be without us.

I hope DU members will support this idea by spreading it out across the net and doing it themselves. One day of sacrifice to make a point is not too much to ask.

I like the old saying, "You don't know what you have got until it's gone." On Friday, America could learn the true value of hard work and common Americans but only if we make it happen.

If you can't take a day off work, how about a national boycott of all retail establishments. No fast food. No gas. No shopping. Buy nothing from the corporate entities that are truly running our country.

What do you say DU? Are you up for some economic disobedience.

That is part one of my two part plan. Part two is much more detailed and complex but if it is initiated in the next four years, we can and will take our country back definitively, decisively and without any question.

Stay tuned DU. Don't give up. Don't give in.

p.s. to the Freepers: Fuck you all. Stay out of our faces because we will kick your ass. You are cowards and liars. You won by hurting our country and now you will reap the destruction you have enabled. I am not crying. I am plotting your obsolescence.. Again, fuck you all.

Stop fighting each other and use that energy to make a change.

If you want to give up then keep going down this path of navel gazing self destruction. I want to take my country back. Fuck all this whining. Do something.

Cuz I like it!!!

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And I would say we need to get under an umbrella organization like Move-On for a huge participation. E-mail ain't gonna cut it.

I'm not giving up; and I'm not giving in (until it will probably be too late to get out.)

It's bad enough we (small business) have to fight against the huge corporations.

Don't make us your victims, too.

Signed,
A liberal Democratic Retail and Web Site owner.

I'm totally starting a boycot! So ashamed I shopped there this summer while I was home - No more!

Can't you afford one day without business to show solidarity? If not, I understand.

Ladies and gentleman, for how long have we rolled over in the name of bi-partisanship? How many times have we decided the fight is not worth fighting? Why do we constantly have the issues but fail to win elections? The answer, quite simply, is because we have no balls.

We all wanted John Kerry to fight on. Would it have been the most prudent decision? I don't know, but it would have showed us something. It would have showed us that WE, the American people, are worth fighting for. Instead, Sen. Kerry decides to concede. He says that there was no chance of him coming up with the necessary votes to win. He could be right. However, simply fighting would do much for this half of the population.

I for one, have balls. I have never backed down from a fight. If someone wants to question me, than come and try. I will not back down. Neither should any of you. I know there is a lot of empty rhetoric regarding this issue (much of it spewing forth from Boston), but, there are those of us that still have balls, and the brains to back them up.

It is time. It is time to forget that often repeated word, bi-partisan. There is a reason the higher you go in your education, the more likely you are to be a progressive. Simply, we are right, and they are wrong. If fighting for the rights of minorities, the homeless, a woman's right to choose, the environment, REAL national security, and everything else we believe in are not worth fighting for, what is?

I for one will not stand down. The fight goes on, with or without you. I hope, with all of my soul, that you are with me. WE, the American people, MUST take back our government. I have, in the past considered running for Congress myself. That question has now been answered. I must, at, potentially, great risk to my own financial well-being. I am wiling to make the sacrifice to move this country back in the direction it should be going. All those with me, stand and fight. If not, you will be left behind. The bandwagon has officially stopped, and it is now time to walk.

energy.

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When we give up, that's when we have truly lost.

OK, this election is toast. Kerry conceded. It's up to us to fight the good fight. Are we going to lay down & die, or are we going to stand up for our rights, beliefs & values? Yes, Democrats have values too!! The fundies DO NOT have a monopoly on values! It's up to US, folks, to show our fellow Americans that our party, our way, is better than theirs!

This approach won the Cold War. We need to start NOW! Channel all your anger, angst & nervous energy into something positive, not fighting amongst ourselves!